Cross-Dressing Voices/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character has a voice actor of the opposite gender.

• Played Straight:
  • Bob (a prepubescent boy) is voiced by a woman.
  • Alice (a grown woman) is voiced by a man.
• Exaggerated:
  • Bob is supposed to be 28 years old (well past puberty)...and is still voiced by a woman
  • Alice has a very low baritone or bass voice.
• Inverted:
  • Bob is voiced by a 10-year-old boy like he himself is.
  • Alice is voiced by a woman.
• Justified:
  • Bob is a prepubescent boy, and with both child labor laws and the fact that little boys' voices change, it's easier to just have a woman voice him.
  • Bob is a Bishounen, to the point of being an outright Dude Looks Like a Lady
  • Alice is a tough female (or even Butch Lesbian character)
  • She's a Man In Japan
• Subverted: Bob starts out voiced by a 10-year-old boy in a Long Runner cartoon series.
• Double Subverted: But then his voice actor undergoes puberty, and they hire a woman to do the voice work.
• Deconstructed: The voice actor can't speak like their gender again.
• Reconstructed:
• Parodied:
  • A grown man is voiced by a 10-year-old girl.
  • An older married couple has the same voice actor Talking to Himself.
  • See Deconstructed.
• Averted: All characters are voiced by members of their own gender.
• Enforced: See "justified"
• Invoked: Bob is a child character in a Long Runner series that doesn't get older...but his voice actor does, and his voice is beginning to crack.
• Defied: The casting department simply hires a new boy to voice Bob.
• Discussed:
• Conversed:
• Played For Laughs: A man voices an older woman, similar to Monty Python dressing in drag to play the same role.
  • See Deconstructed.
• Played For Drama: Bob is revealed to be Roberta.

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